Williams v. Bethany Volunteer Fire Department

MARTIN, Justice.

Only one question is presented to this Court: whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the trial judge committed prejudicial error in allowing defendants’ motion for a jury view of *433the fire truck. We conclude that the Court of Appeals did so err and, accordingly, reverse.

Although it did not expressly so state, the Court of Appeals evidently treated the jury view of the fire truck as an experiment. It applied the rules governing admissibility of experiments to the facts and found that the trial judge’s ruling did not comply with these standards. In treating the jury…